Recent Articles
JAN 11, 2011 • Article
Kitengesa, Uganda: Happy Development
A series of inter-related projects in a Ugandan village show that small can be beautiful, particularly for women--and it all began with a community library.
DEC 14, 2010 • Article
Suicide Terror and the Preoccupation with Occupation
According to Robert Pape, suicide bombers the world over are not motivated by religion; they are all secular nationalists resisting foreign occupation. Is there really ...
DEC 14, 2010 • Article
Las Presidentas
A new era in Latin America or status quo in another form? While female politicians' success in Latin American elections is laudable, this trend does ...
DEC 3, 2010 • Journal
Women and States: Norms and Hierarchies in International Society by Ann E. Towns
This new work by Ann Towns is an intelligent and timely addition to interdisciplinary scholarship that is interested in the relationships between the status of ...
DEC 3, 2010 • Journal
Genocide: A Normative Account by Larry May
Larry May's "Genocide: A Normative Account" is not a study of genocide per se, but rather an attempt to draw attention to the conceptual and ...
DEC 3, 2010 • Journal
The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality by Ayelet Shachar
"The Birthright Lottery" puts forward an account of birthright citizenship as analogous to inherited property, and proposes a birthright privilege levy on citizenship inheritance that ...
DEC 2, 2010 • Journal
Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: Where Expectations Meet Reality [Full Text]
Scholars of RtoP need a much deeper understanding of both how norms evolve and the competing normative commitments that drive those who remain skeptical of ...
DEC 2, 2010 • Journal
Common Health Policy Interests and the Shaping of Global Pharmaceutical Policies
The division of interests in key health policy areas are not necessarily between rich and poor countries, but between pharmaceutical industry interests and health policy ...
DEC 2, 2010 • Journal
The Politics of Carbon Leakage and the Fairness of Border Measures
It is possible to design fair border measures that address carbon leakage, are consistent with the leadership responsibilities of developed countries, do not penalize developing ...